PHASE 3.2Translation and Transformation

Extracting from the Neighborhood // Understanding Site and FormTo begin to understand the parameters of designing of our XS House, we will research the neighborhood for both its formal and informal qualities. These qualities will be described through the use of 2D and 3D rep-resentation, namely, collage and model. We will use a process of perception and abstraction to create the framework for a formal language in our XS House.This process offers other opportunities to inform your design beyond precedent and intuition, but still requires careful and creative thinking to compose, edit and craft your understanding of the site and neighborhood.

1 // ObjectivesDevelop skills of abstraction and perceptionPractice craft of collage and model makingGain intimate understanding of residential neighborhood of BridgeportInform future design thinking for project

2 // PART 1: Perceptions of Site as CollageCreate a 2D collage that conveys and combines your perceptions of residential character of the neighbor-hood.Your collage should create a composition that: •Creates a sense of depth •Uses a variety of textures or scales •Show a conveys of directionality or emphasizes a fi gure, form or shape •Depicts some aspect of the residential character of neighborhood

2 // PART 1: Perceptions of Site as CollageCollage Requirements:Find one kind of architectural genre to extrapolate upon, can fi nd multiples of the same kind of element. Potential architectural genres to consider: •thresholds/portals •apertures •roofl ines and groundscapes •structure or infrastructure •ornament and patterns

Develop skills of abstraction and perception

Create a 2D collage......composition that has: •a sense of depth •a variety of textures or scales •directionality •fi gure, form or shape

Convey your perceptions of the residential character of the neighborhood (formal and informal qualities):Extrapolate upon: •thresholds/portals •apertures •roofl ines and groundscapes •structure or infrastructure •ornament and patterns

thresholds/portals

CUBISMPictorial Space

Multiple PerspectivesFlatness and Texture

Georges Braque, House Et L’Estaque, 1909 Pablo Picasso, Girl With Mandolin, 1910

Georges Braque, La Guitare, 1909 Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

DADAno singular perspecitve / space

variety of scales and texturestext and mass media

form and shape

Hannah Hoch, The Beautiful Girl, 1920 Hannah Hoch, The Beautiful Girl, 1920

POST-WARfl atness & depth

abstraction & minimalismrepetition: order & scale

Antoni Tapies, Collage with the Crosses, 1947

Yayoi Kusama, Accumulation of Stamps, 1962

1960’sassemblages & fragments

utopia & distopialanguage of architecture

(role of architecture)

Daniel Libeskind, (Cooper Union Collages), 1968-1970

Daniel Libeskind, details (Cooper Union Collages), 1968-1970

CONTEMPORARYrepurposing found materials

image fragmentsrepetition

representation and abstractionperspectival space

Mark Bradford at his mother’s beauty shop Joel Sternfeld, The Northwest Corner of Florence and Normandie Avenues, Los Angeles, 1993

Mark Bradford, Untitled (lithographs), 2003

Mark Bradford, The Devil is Beating his Wife, 2003

Benjamin Maus, Frederic Gmeiner, Torsten Posselt, Extracts of Local Distance, 2010

Benjamin Maus, Frederic Gmeiner, Torsten Posselt, Funkhaus (& detail), 2010